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...band's guitarrist is an unusually tall boy known as K., who refus- es to reveal the other letters of his name. K.describes himself as "gangly and obsequious," butonly the gangly part is true. K. is funny, bothfunny weird and funny ha ha. He's also quitestudious for someone his height...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take the G-Train | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...other virtually so-and two clothed men, occupying the foreground of a sketchily painted Arcadian landscape. We have been taught to see its allusions stick out like elbows (here a homage to Giorgione, there a quotation from Marcantonio Raimondi), but what infuriated the audience at the Salon des Refusés in 1863, and has caused so many gallons of ink to be spilled on it since, is its insolubility as narrative. An "uncouth riddle," one critic called it. What are those people doing? One modernist answer is that they are busy being in a painting. But, as Curator Cachin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Most Parisian of Them All | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...Lewis, a BAARD organizer, said Saturday he advocates refus 1 to register if the registration bill takes effect. I wis added that people who do register should not include their social security numbers on the registration forms so that they will be harder to locate if they eventually decide to oppose the draft...

Author: By Peter T. Zacharia, | Title: Anti-Draft Rally | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...LORD he reigned in Ov1 Ofys³ sphere, Ful oft strove he to mak thyngs parfait clere.4 But wonder, though it get him legal scrapes, He, verraily, refus to clere The Tapyse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Waterbury Tales | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...sham. The owners of the big enterprises and the politicians still made the decisions, only "consulting" the people from time to time. To destroy this false impression of participation and open a breech in the system of integration, the political action of SDS became a "refus organisee...

Author: By Franklin D. Chu, | Title: French Student Protest: Losing the Romanticism Amidst the Chaos | 9/29/1969 | See Source »

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